{Upcycled} Juice Pouch Wallets - A Tutorial

Because we all need a break from work......

Here's an easy weekend craft to give yourself a break from studying or if you are a teacher, grading papers. Mr. UpCyclist and I both carry a juice pouch wallet and get compliments all the time on how fun & unique they are.

You need:

Two clean juice pouches (like Honest Kids, Capri Sun, etc.)

Goo-Be-Gone (explained below)

Velcro (see photo below)

Sewing machine

Scissors

Step #1: Get all the kids in your neighborhood or in your classroom to drink juice from a pouch.

Step #2: Using scissors, cut a small slit on the bottom of each pouch, so you can easily wash out the inside of the pouches.

Step #3: Give the pouches a bath. Ahhh....the life of an {upcycled} pouch.

Step #4: Let the pouches dry overnight. The next day, I like to place a small paper towel inside the bottom slit to collect any excess water. That's a Martha Stewart tip, by the way. She does that in her vases, reportedly. Now, for the Goo-Be-Gone: Sometimes the glue used to adhere the straw to the outside of the pouch leaves a sticky residue. The Goo-Be-Gone gets rid of that residue from the outside of the pouch lickety-split. I found my small bottle of Goo-Be-Gone at the Dollar Store. Home Depot has Goo-Be-Gone, too.

Step #5: You are about to start sewing. You are going to line-up two pouches like I have below. One pouch should overlap the other pouch about 2 inches.

Step #6: You will then sew two zig-zag lines across the two juice pouches while they are nice and aligned with each other. Two zig-zag lines is adequate to hold the pouches together.